Verse 16

If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:17 : 17 Nevertheless, each person should live as the Lord has assigned them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.
  • Acts 21:24 : 24 Take these men, join in their purification rites, and pay their expenses so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth to these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.
  • 1 Thess 2:14 : 14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews.
  • 1 Tim 6:3-4 : 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and arguments about words, which result in envy, strife, slander, and evil suspicions.
  • Acts 21:21 : 21 'They have been informed that you teach all the Jews living among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or follow our customs.'
  • 1 Cor 14:33-34 : 33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. 34 Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak but must be in submission, as the law says.
  • 1 Cor 16:1 : 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints: just as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.